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Cake Mix Blondies with Maple Butter Sauce

I believe I have mentioned in previous posts that I’m somewhat of a lazy baker. I enjoy baked goods, I really do. Who doesn’t? But often I am so tired after all the grocery shopping, preparing breakfast and lunches and then cooking dinner and washing up that by the time dessert comes around, I am plum tired. Not to mention all the other things that go into running the house in addition to my job outside of the home. It’s exhausting being a grown up, ain’t it? So I am always looking for ways to make my favorite desserts a little faster. I have a ‘from-scratch’ recipe for this that I really enjoy. But I don’t make it that often because it takes more time and energy than I sometimes have. So this quicker recipe is my solution and yes, it starts off with a boxed cake mix. I think a country song needs to be made up about boxed cake mixes. Anyone out there got a steel guitar I can borrow?

Ingredients:

For the Blondies

1 box yellow cake mix

2 large eggs

½ cup unsalted butter, melted

1 cup white chocolate chips

1 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)

For the Sauce

1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk

6 tbsp. maple syrup

2 tbsp. butter, melted

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Spray 9 x13 with nonstick cooking spray. In a medium bowl, combine cake mix, eggs and melted butter until combined. This will blend easier using an electric mixer. Batter will be very thick. Stir in white chocolate chips and walnuts (if using).

Spread mixture evenly into pan. I like to spray my hands with a little of the nonstick spray, and then spread it out using my hands. It just makes it much easier.

Bake for about 20-25 minutes, until golden brown and inserted toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool before cutting into squares

In a small bowl, using a whisk, combine sweetened condensed milk with melted butter and maple syrup. Stir well. If you want to serve this sauce warm, just pop bowl into microwave and nuke it for a few seconds until warm. Serve blondie squares with ice cream and drizzle with warm maple butter sauce.

Cook’s Note: You can use any type of chocolate pieces you like with this.

Enjoy!

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Cake Mix Blondies with Maple Butter Sauce

Prep Time10minutes

Cook Time25minutes

Total Time35minutes

Servings12

AuthorThe Country Cook

Ingredients

For the Blondies

1box yellow cake mix

2large eggs

½cupunsalted buttermelted

1cupwhite chocolate chips

1cupwalnutschopped (optional)

For the Sauce

1ozcan sweetened condensed milk14 .

6tbsp. maple syrup

2tbsp. buttermelted

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.

Spray 9 x 13 with nonstick cooking spray (I like the kind that has flour in it)

In a medium bowl, combine cake mix, eggs and melted butter until combined.

This will blend easier using an electric mixer.

Batter will be very thick.

Stir in white chocolate chips and walnuts (if using).

Spread mixture evenly into pan.

I like to spray my hands with a little of the nonstick spray, and then spread it out using my hands.

It just makes it much easier.

Bake for about 20-25 minutes, until golden brown and inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Allow to cool before cutting into squares.

For the Sauce

In a small bowl, using a whisk, combine sweetened condensed milk with melted butter and maple syrup.

Stir well.

If you want to serve this sauce warm, just pop bowl into microwave and nuke it for a few seconds until warm.

Recipe Notes

Serve blondie squares with ice cream and drizzle with warm maple butter sauce.You can use any type of chocolate pieces you like with this.

I order a dessert similiar to this every time I go to Applebee's. Now I can make this at home without the sizzling plate. What a great recipe and the shortcuts make it more appealing. I can't wait to try this sometime.

This is too funny, because just a couple nights ago my husband and I were talking about how I wished I had a good blondie recipe!?! (I've never made them…) Whaala! Here it is! Thanks so much for baking this and sharing with us. There's no shame in box mix! Just means I'll make it more often. 🙂~Leslie

The Applebee's dessert is one of my husband's favorites.It will score me big "blondie" points if I can make this at home.It would be great to make a batch of these to freeze and pull out for dessert quickly. Do you think the sauce would freeze with good results, or would it seperate and get watery?

LOVE IT!! I think there is a reason they still make box cake mixes & it is SO I CAN USE THEM!! I will be trying this one soon. Thanks for the great recipes! p.s. i will be using the "chubby hand" in mine also! 🙂

So many of the recipes uyou make are similar to the ones the familt always make. I like them all. I don't remember who pointed me in your direction, but glad I listened. Thanks for the chance to win all your recipes.

I'm right there with you…standing in line to purchase a cake mix that can make baking soooo much easier. *_* These sound amazing – would be awesome to serve to company I'm sure. You can never go wrong with sweetened condensed milk! MMM!

Brandie, these look amazing! Why bother with baking from scratch when you make something this delicious so easily. I'm sold. In fact, I'm pinning it to make for the family. They will LOVE it. Thanks for sharing your recipe and have a great weekend!

Yes, I just commented on the awesome mac and cheese recipe 🙂 however, I also made this for dessert yesterday and loved it!! It's better than Applebee's and much cheaper!! Maybe you could just plan my dinner menu… just a thought…. 🙂